Sean MacDermott

Sean MacDermott (27 January 1883-12 May 1916), also known as Sean Mac Diarmada, was an Irish Republican Brotherhood revolutionary and a leader of the failed 1916 Easter Rising.

Biography
Sean MacDermott was born in Kiltyclogher, County Leitrim, Ireland on 27 January 1883, and he became involved with Sinn Fein and the Irish Republican Brotherhood while he was a student. In 1913, he was one of the original members of the Irish Volunteers, and he was arrested for speaking out against enlisting in the British Army during World War I in 1914. During the Easter Rising, MacDermott became one of the main leaders of the Irish national uprising, only to be captured by the British when they crushed the uprising. On 12 May 1916, MacDermott was executed by firing squad, and his killers and captors would later be murdered by Michael Collins' death squad during the Irish War of Independence.